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February 2018

February 22, 2018

Just Say Fluffy Bun

Rosie was excited to tell me what she learned in her Eastern Catholic catechism...

February 14, 2018

Thoughts on Today’s Valentine’s-Ash Wednesday Mashup

It may have come to your attention that today is Ash Wednesday, and also Valentine's...

February 13, 2018

I Confess I’m Unimpressed

A respected apologist recently shared a short comic strip that had me scratching my head....

January 2018

January 10, 2018

Smooth Sailing

I decided to be one of those insufferable people who drinks healthy smoothies. Smoothies...

January 04, 2018

Notes on Our Lady While Sick in Bed

Apologies for the radio static, my friends. My chronic illness is apparently not Catholic and...

January 01, 2018

A Parade of Novel Ideas

You know those memes that are going around: "Comment and I'll write how I would...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

Paintings of the Flight Into Egypt that Make It Look Like a Pleasant Jaunt Through European Wine Country

I wrote a sophisticated and mature post on the Holy Innocents and the Flight...

December 14, 2017

Doing Christmas Wrong

I don't usually read magazines like Better Homes and Gardens, Country Living or Good Housekeeping....

December 10, 2017

Comfort and Joy in Downtown Steubenville

I was recently informed by a disgruntled reader that I "literally threw the entire...

December 03, 2017

How the Grinch Stole David Bowie

It was bound to happen at some time or other. I'm sorry that it happened...

November 2017

November 08, 2017

What’s For Dinner? Volume Three

I did it. I finally did it. I successfully made and ate stew. We almost...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Halloween Rundown 2017

Halloween is over at last, leaving us all sad until next year. Time to...

October 30, 2017

Last-Minute Halloween Advice From Steel Magnificat

It's All Hallow's Eve Eve! The most wonderful time of the year! I am so...

October 26, 2017

Swinging for Chastity

When I was a teenager, in that strange homeschool group where we kept ourselves pure from the...

October 24, 2017

An Article Which Has Nothing to Do With Father James Martin

Anthony Esolen is cross with Father James Martin. For the life of me, I can't...

October 22, 2017

Ten Further Church Buzzwords That Ought to Be Banned

A priest by the name of Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, with whom I'm not familiar, recently...

October 18, 2017

Victim-Blaming is Not Apologetics

I believe I've mentioned before that I've never been entirely sure what an apologist...

October 14, 2017

An End to the Attacks on Judeo-Christian Values?

We're all in luck. Our sainted president, TV's Donald Trump, has announced that "We are...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

Rebecca Bratten Weiss Drops the Mic

As has been widely reported, my dear friend Rebecca Bratten Weiss was recently dismissed from...

September 07, 2017

Murder Most Dubious

I have seen several people publicly declare that if you believe the Pope is complicit...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

Jon McNaughton Jumps the Snake

I try to respect other people. I do. I'm not good at it, but...

August 17, 2017

How Will We Preserve History Without Confederate Statues?

I have compiled a brief and non-exhaustive list of ways in which the United States...

August 12, 2017

The White Supremacist Tiki Brigade: On the Stupidity of Evil

There is nothing funny about the white supremacists demonstrating in Virginia. Nothing whatsoever. Except that...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Something About Natural Family Planning

Apparently I have once again missed Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, the happiest week of...

July 22, 2017

Deacon Jim’s Blunder: The Actual Definition of “Orthophobia”

Our old friend Deacon Jim is at it again. Jim Russell, a persistent man whom...

July 21, 2017

A Sober Discourse About Pornography

Everyone's talking about pornography these days, what with the Game of Thrones season...

July 18, 2017

The Fault of My Sleeves: In Which I Admit the Truth About Modest Clothing

I wanted to go to the adoration chapel. I'd been running errands downtown. I had to...

July 18, 2017

Mr. Pezzulo’s Uncanny Day

The praying mantis on my hat was the fun part of the day. And I,...

July 15, 2017

When Is It Okay to Tell a Woman She’s in Great Shape?

We're going to answer an age-old question which has been all over the news lately:...

July 11, 2017

Watty Piper’s Mechanical Dystopia: Looking Back At “The Little Engine That Could”

There are stories that only improve with age. And then there's Watty Piper's 1930 fable,...